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	Lydda
		Julius Caesar in 48 B.C. gave Lydda to the Jews, but Cassius in 44 sold the inhabitants, who two years later were set at liberty by Antony (Josephus, "Jewish War", I, xi, 2; "Antiquities", XIV xii, 2-5).
		Lydda has been surnamed Georgiopolis in honour of the martyr St. George, who is said to have been a native of this town.
		On the arrival of the Crusaders in 1099 Lydda became the seat of a Latin see, many of whose titulars are known.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/lydda.html (427 words)

	Lod - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Lod (Hebrew לוֹד; Arabic اَلْلُدّْ al-Ludd, Greco-Latin Lydda, Tiberian Hebrew לֹד Lōḏ) is a city in the Center District of Israel in Israel.
		During the Middle Ages the city, known at the time as Lydda, was occupied by the Crusaders in 1099, retrieved by Saladin and taken again by the Crusaders in 1191.
		For the English Crusaders, such as King Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted), Lydda was a place of great significance, since it was believed to be the birthplace of England's patron saint, Saint George.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Lod (706 words)

	Lydda
		In the Hellenistic period Lydda was outside the boundaries of Judea.
		The Jews were forced out by the 1921 Arab riots; by 1944 Lydda had a population of 17,000 Arabs, one-fifth of them Christian.
		Israel's international airport, renamed in honor of David Ben-Gurion, was originally built on the outskirts of Lydda by the British Mandatory government in 1936.
	www.gracenotes.info /topics/Lydda.html (815 words)

	Saint George - LoveToKnow 1911
		According to the legend given by Metaphrastes the Byzantine hagiologist, and substantially repeated in the Roman Ada sanctorum and in the Spanish breviary, he was born in Cappadocia of noble Christian parents, from whom he received a careful religious training.
		His festival is observed on that anniversary by the entire Roman Catholic Church as a semi-duplex, and by the Spanish Catholics as a duplex of the first class with an octave.
		The notion sprang from an ancient bas-relief of George and the Dragon on the Lydda church.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Saint_George (751 words)

	Lydda
		Lydda was a city between Jerusalem and Joppa (Jaffa) in the coastal plain of Israel.
		Lydda was called Lod in the Old Testament and founded by Shamed, a Benjamite.
		Lydda was Jewish by the time of the Maccabees but Cassius, the governor of Syria, sold its inhabitants into slavery in In 43 a.d.
	latter-rain.com /background/lydda.htm (187 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - LYDDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At an early date Lydda was a center of the veneration of St. George, for both Antoninus Martyr (c.
		After the destruction of Jerusalem, Lydda was famous as a seat of Jewish scholarship, and the academy which flourished there is frequently mentioned in the Talmud and other works of traditional literature.
		At Lydda, in the garret of one Nitsa, during the Hadrianic persecutions, was adopted the historical resolution that where martyrdom was the only alternative, all the religious laws, excepting three, might be transgressed, the three exceptions being the laws concerning idolatry, incest, and murder (Yer.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=640&letter=L (549 words)

	Discussion: 86. Lod also Lydea, called also Diospolis - (Lydda, Lud) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lydda first appears in the Canaanite period (1465 B.C.E.) when it is mentioned in Thutmosis III's list of towns in Canaan.
		At Lydda the latter activity is attested by a Greek inscription carved on a column, now engaged in a pilaster of the mosque which has replaced the church.
		According to the Calendar of Jerusalem Church the annual feast was held on November 3: it commemorated the dedication of the church and the deposition of the relics (Garitte, Calendrier, 374-375).
	www.christusrex.org /www1/ofm/mad/discussion/086discuss.html (4690 words)

	Expulsion of the Palestinians--Lydda and Ramleh in 1948
		Lydda and Ramleh lay east of Jaffa, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and were to be part of the Palestinian state—as was Jaffa—according to the United Nations Partition Plan of 1947.
		The order said: "The residents of Lydda must be expelled quickly without attention to age." It was signed by Lieutenant Colonel Yitzhak Rabin, operations chief of the Lydda-Ramleh attack and later Israel's military chief of staff and its prime minister in 1974-77 and again today since 1992.
		One of the families forced from Lydda was that of George Habash.
	www.wrmea.com /backissues/0794/9407072.htm (1644 words)

	Philologos \| The Holy Land and the Bible by Cunningham Geikie \| Chapter 2
		Lydda is famous as the reputed place of the birth and burial of the patron saint of England—St. George.
		The population of Lydda in 1851, the date of the last report, was 1,345, but with the villages of the district round, united with it in official arrangements, it was 4,400.
		The ride from Lydda to Ramleh is through orchards of olives, pomegranates, apricots, almonds, and other fruit-trees, with mulberries and sycamores varying the picture.
	philologos.org /__eb-thlatb/chap02.htm (3497 words)

	Lod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lod (Hebrew לוֹד; Arabic اَلْلُدّْ al-Ludd, Greco-Latin Lydda, Tiberian Hebrew לֹד Lōḏ) is a city in the Center District of Israel.
		During the Middle Ages the city came under Crusader control in 1099, was briefly taken by Saladin and taken again by the Crusaders in 1191.
		When Zionist immigrants began settling in Palestine at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, they often avoided the area of Lydda and Ramlah because of its considerable Arab population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lydda (730 words)

	Women's WORLD
		The 150 soldiers were part of a large fighting force made up of Holocaust survivors, literally just off the boats and themselves the dispossessed of a European catastrophe, as well as Jews born in Palestine who had sharpened their fighting skills in World War II with the British army.
		From Lydda, Palestinians were marched out of town and toward the hills in the general direction of the Christian hill town of Ramallah, more than 20 miles away.
		Jewish soldiers would later recall a desire to punish the Arabs of Lydda for their aborted uprising; some soldiers confiscated gold from the refugees, and shot in the air behind them to speed their departure.
	www.wworld.org /programs/middleEast.asp?ID=532 (2359 words)

	Lydda (Lod)
		The Roman proconsul of Syria, Cestius Gallus, burned Lydda on his way to Jerusalem in 66 c.e.
		Captured by John the Essene at the eginning of the first Jewish war (66--70), it was occupied by Vespasian in 68 c.e.
		During the War of Independence, Israel forces occupied Lydda in July 1948.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/places/lod.html (470 words)

	Loyalty Reset Quest
		Lydda in Ayan if you are aligned with King Varricci and Giordonni if you are aligned with Silyun or Elysa.
		Lydda tells you, "But first you must do something for me. I seek an artifact, a Ruschk funerary fetish, from the Ruschk burial mound at 91.5 N, Bring me the artifact, and your record will be wiped clean."
		Lydda tells you, "Be warned, this is a very difficult and risky operation, so neither I nor my associates will do this for you again.
	www.thejackcat.com /AC/Hobbies/Quests/reset.htm (542 words)

	Lod, Israel
		Lod (Lydda), 22km/14mi southeast of Tel Aviv and 3km/2mi northeast of Ramla, is now known mainly for its international airport, but it reaches far back into the past in history and myth.
		It acquired special importance from its association with St George, who according to tradition was born in Lydda, served as a tribune in the Roman army and was martyred in 303, in the reign of Diocletian.
		His remains were brought back to Lydda, where from the fifth century onwards pilgrims were shown his tomb.
	www.planetware.com /israel/lod-isr-cn-lod.htm (587 words)

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		The reason that I keep saying that his tour was evidently in Samaria is because the city of Lydda was in Samaria and the other cities to which he went immediately thereafter were in Samaria.
		Lydda was a Samaritan city which was located on a highway between Jerusalem and Joppa, which was over on the seacoast.
		Lydda, of course, was the city where the miracle took place.
	members.ispwest.com /pec/acts/Acts050.txt (2792 words)

	Welcome To al-Lydd
		According to Rabin, the decision to ethnically cleanse the twin cities was an agonizing decision, however, his guilty conscious did not stop him from placing a similar order against three nearby villages ('Imwas, Yalu, and Bayt Nuba) 19 years later.
		The exodus from Lydda and al- Ramla was portrayed firsthand by Ismail Shammout, the renowned Palestinians artist from Lydda itself, click here to view his exodus gallery.
		Often, the Israeli commanders on the scene were encouraged to use refugees to burden the enemy's war machine, clog their roads, divert food and other supplies away from their enemy, and to demoralization the population and the Arab armies.
	www.palestineremembered.com /al-Ramla/al-Lydd (1641 words)

	PETER PREACHES IN JUDEA
		Luke begins the account of Peter’s circuit around Judea with his trip to Lydda to "visit the saints," that is, the believers (9:32).
		Lydda was about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of Jerusalem, at the edge of the central highlands.
		When the church hears that Peter is nearby in Lydda, they send two men to urge him to come immediately to see what he can do.
	www.wcg.org /lit/bible/acts/acts9b.htm (1289 words)

	Remembering 1948 the way it was (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The vital importance of the capture of these towns was later confirmed by colonel el-Tel of the Arab Legion, who wrote that the fall of Lydda and Ramle marked the end of Arab threats to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
		Lydda's leaders were told they could continue to live in peace, provided they surrendered their arms and accepted Israeli sovereignty.
		A notable example: On May 12, when the Jordanians struck Kibbutz Etzion, the battle lasted until the last handful of survivors, without arms and ammunition, raised their hands in surrender, only to be mowed down by machine gunners.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1079465/posts (1366 words)

	The Palestinian Catastrophe, Then and Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On July 11, 1948, a convoy of halftracks and jeeps from Israeli Commando Battalion Eighty-Nine approached the Arab city of Lydda on the coastal plain of Palestine.
		Yigal Allon, writing in the journal of the Palmach in July 1948, described the military advantages of the mass expulsions: Driving out the citizens of Ramla and Lydda would alleviate the pressure from an armed and hostile population, while clogging the roads toward the Arab Legion front, seriously hampering any effort to retake the towns.
		The refugees from Ramla and Lydda arrived in exile, transforming the Christian hill town of Ramallah into a repository of misery and trauma.
	www.commondreams.org /views06/0711-23.htm (2523 words)

	IHRC - A TERRORIST DESECRATION
		The order said: 'The residents of Lydda must be expelled quickly without attention to age.' It was signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Yitzhak Rabin, operations chief of the Lydda-Ramleh attack and later Israeli military chief of staff and Prime Minister.
		The interesting fact about Lydda and Ramleh is that it is the one massacre and ethnic cleansing that the Zionist regime has been forced to admit, if only because of the indiscretion of some of the perpetrators.
		We owe it to the dead of Lydda and Ramleh to ensure that they are not forgotten - and the best way to commemorate their murders would be to force the closing of 'Ben Gurion Airport'.
	www.ihrc.org.uk /show.php?id=387 (1577 words)

	LYDDA WEAR - ABBIGLIAMENTO PER CHI E' SEDUTO IN CARROZZINA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lydda Wear è l'unica azienda esistente in Italia che da oltre 10 anni studia, progetta e realizza capi d'abbigliamento specifici per chiunque sia seduto in carrozzina indipendentemente dalla patologia cui è affetto.
		Centinaia di utenti in questi 10 anni si sono affidati a Lydda Wear, permettendogli di crescere e sviluppare nuovi capi d'abbigliamento con soluzioni tecniche sempre più vicine alle loro esigenze.
		Lydda Wear è così riuscita a costruire nonchè identificare delle modellerie specifiche per ogni singola patologia invalidante.
	www.lyddawear.com (236 words)

	Acts 9:38 As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing
		As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.
		And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
		And as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent to him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
	bible.cc /acts/9-38.htm (345 words)

	Welcome to Nigerian net: Author's Profile
		The incomparable Lydda was Born in Lagos to teaching Parents.She graduated from the University of Lagos and later Boston university where she received her Masters degree in Social work.
		Ever Privacy conscious Lydda will only let us say that she is not married and currently lives and work in the Boston Area.
		To understand Lydda, all you have to do is look at her answer to a very simple question we asked her.
	www.nigeriannet.com /authors/lydda (326 words)

	Economic Condition of Judaea after the Destruction of the Second Temple," by Adolph Buchler
		These statements of Josephus show that Lydda and Jamnia had been in Roman possession from 66 or 67 and were populated with loyal Jews, and that Emmaus was not destroyed.
		The vendors of Lydda rejoiced when R. Tarfon fixed the amount of over-reaching, permitting a buyer to return the article, at one-eighth of the value; but when he added that the buyer may retract the whole day of the transaction, they reverted to the accepted rule of the earlier rabbis, for they sold dear.
		When a certain Alexa died in Lydda, the men of the villages came to bewail him, but R. Tarfon prohibited the public mouming owing to the holy day.
	www.adath-shalom.ca /buchler.htm (9156 words)

	Lydda - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Lydda" at HighBeam.
		The legacy of Lydda: four decades of blood vengeance.
		Lydda and Ramle: from Palestinian-Arab to Israeli towns, 1948-67.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-l1ydda.html (138 words)

	Francis Phillips reviews St George: Knight of Lydda, by Anthony Cooney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		What Anthony Cooney has done is to take the few known and poignant facts of his death during the persecutions under Diocletian and construct a fascinating and credible story of the life that led to martyrdom.
		The sight of white flags with their red crosses fluttering on 23 April in our area suggests our patron saint is not yet quite forgotten.
		My single criticism of this most interesting novel is that it lacks a map of the classical world, so that words like 'Lydda', 'Joppa', 'Palmyra’, ‘Antioch’ conjured up a vague and imprecise Middle Eastern landscape - until I managed to locate them at the back of my Jerusalem Bible.
	www.theotokos.org.uk /pages/breviews/francisp/stgeorge.html (500 words)

	CONVERSION TO GOD CHAPTER 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"All that dwelt at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord." Not only the inhabitants of Lydda, but those who lived in the surrounding district of Sharon, rightly attributed the cure to the Lord; and they became His worshippers, followers, converts.
		How much of the transactions in and around Lydda is compressed in four brief verses will be seen by an enumeration of the statements.
		What had happened "was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord." As the cure of Eneas had resulted in many conversions in and around Lydda, so the restoration to life of Tabitha resulted in many of the inhabitants of Joppa believing in the Lord.
	www.netcomuk.co.uk /~pdover/brown11.htm (3356 words)

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